MTV says “Rock Band” is flying off shelves
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Viacom Inc’s (VIAb.N) MTV Networks said on Wednesday that copies of “Rock Band,” its new music-based video game, have been “flying off the shelves” in the first week of sales.

One Laptop Per Child Sued for Patent Infringement
The One Laptop Per Child Association has been sued for patent infringement, charging the project with stealing its designs for a multilingual keyboard.

Soup Up Your Cellphone
Widgets will not turn your vintage Motorola StarTAC into an iPhone, but they will add features and functions that you didn’t think were capable on your phone.

Humanoid robot teaches dentists to feel people’s pain
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan’s future dentists may soon be able to better appreciate patients’ pain by training on a humanoid robot that can mumble “ouch” when the drill hits a nerve.

Fashion Preview: Tomorrow’s High-Tech Clothing
Fashion always keeps at least one eye on the future. Now scientists are lending a hand, developing tomorrow’s super-powered clothing such as garments that can recharge your MP3 player and exoskeletons that enhance strength.

Stem cell pioneer says embryonic research still needed
TOKYO (AFP) – A Japanese scientist who helped produce stem cells from skin says controversial research on human embryos must continue for now, as it will take time to put the new breakthrough into practical use.

Genes May Explain Role of Race in Colon Cancer Risk
Differences in a key piece of DNA seem important, scientists say

Autistic Children Have More Gray Matter in Brains
This imbalance may make it tougher for them to function socially, study suggests

Drug May Help Reverse Clotting Deficiency
Eltrombopag might also aid patients with hepatitis liver disease, study finds.

Rise in CT Scans Poses Cancer Risk
One-third of the scans are unnecessary, Columbia researchers contend

Obesity Rates Leveling Off Among U.S. Adults
But more than a third of Americans still weigh much too much, study finds

3-D Breast Imaging May Improve Cancer Detection
Stereoscopic digital mammography cut rate of false-positive results, study found

Men Talk More Than Women
Women may have a reputation as the chattier gender, but research into the matter shows that men may actually be a little more talkative than women—though it all depends on the situation.

Dogs Do Well on Computers
They sport bejeweled chokers, lavish in bubble baths at spas and have their own leather-bag chauffeurs. And now our almost-like-human dogs might also try their paws at computers. In order to test whether dogs can visually categorize pictures, and transfer their knowledge to new situations, four dogs were shown landscape and dog photographs, and expected to make a selection on a computer touch-screen.

Roman artifacts found at London’s Olympic site
Roman pottery and a coin from the Iron Age have been found on the site of the aquatics center planned for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

New Findings Underscore an Earth-Venus Kinship
Other than the hellish heat, a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere and corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid, Venus is a lot like Earth, scientists said yesterday. In a news conference at the Paris headquarters of the European Space Agency, the scientists, working on the agency’s Venus Express mission, played up the Venus-as-Earth’s-twin angle in presenting their newest findings, including signs of lightning, surprising swings of temperature and additional evidence that Venus could have once had oceans the size of Earth’s.

Speeding Star to Escape from Milky Way
One of the fastest moving stars ever seen is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed. The cosmic cannonball, a neutron star known as RX J0822-4300, was discovered with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Astronomers used five years of Chandra observations to show that the rogue star is careening away from the Puppis A supernova remnant, leftovers of a star that exploded about 3,700 years ago. The neutron star is racing of our Milky Way Galaxy at about 3 million mph (4.8 million kph).

Scientists Discover ‘Teenager Galaxies’
LONDON (AP) – Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world’s most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours. An international group of researchers has identified 27 pre-galactic fragments, dubbed “teenager galaxies,” which they hope will help astronomers understand how our own Milky Way reached adulthood.